Monday, February 25, 2019

Open Source Content/DNS/Security Filtering products

I’m doing some work for an NGO/NPO that has about 25 desktops and host everything in-house. After some discussion they want to look at “upgrading” their IT capabilities and systems to support a safer working environment for their people and the people under their care.

As such I’ve been looking for any projects that may help given the situation;

All-in-wonder solutions - Untangled is the current option we are looking at as it caters to most of what we are needing (content filtering, AV, IDS/IPS, remote access, pretty UI that their staff can manage), given they are moving to Office 365 for NPO’s, I’m looking at how they can integrate with this, but this is a minor concern for right now as we can just assign static IP’s if needs be to devices. - OpnSense, pfSemse and Smoothwall are others I’m taking a look at.

Content Filtering - Squid + Squidguard and DansGuarian used to be my go to, but unsure they are still up to the task (the add ons, not the base product)

DNS Based Filtering - nxfilter and pihole are of interest, looking around for others but I’m struggling to find anything else that is full featured.

IPS and IDS - harder topic, I have been keeping an eye on SweetSecurity for a Pi based solution as an option, I’d be keen to see other projects similar to this if anyone knows of any?

SSL VPN - OpenVPN-AS is the goto, haven’t really found many others

Appreciate if anyone has other projects they know of or have used in these types of scenarios?

Cheers



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